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Demography and Nation

Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria

9789639776661
292 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
The monograph investigates the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Bulgaria. Reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic considerations. It sets the laws regarding family welfare in their framework of a distinctively cultural, historical and political discourse to follow the motives behind the legislative initiatives.
Author Bio

Svetla Baloutzova received her doctoral degree in History from the University of Cambridge in 2005. She joined the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia in September 2007. Her academic interests are in the field of social history, population studies and the history of the European welfare state.